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Anthony English is an independent contractor who solves expensive problems for businesses running IBM Power Systems.
He has written extensively about AIX and has been recognised for his contributions and thought leadership by being named an IBM Champion for Power Systems.

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I wonder how many businesses have a serious Disaster Recovery plan. I have been thinking about this as I have recently been invited to do a test Disaster Recovery run using Vision Solutions' software, DoubleTake RecoverNow for AIX . I'll post some blogs about how it looks. I'm keen to find DR solutions that are simple and comprehensive. Sadly, many existing plans are neither. For plenty of companies, the DR plan consists of little more than a blind hope that nothing's gonna go wrong. What does your DR plan look like? How many DR plans have... [More]

Double-Take
RecoverNow for AIX: Impressions and Corrections I
wrote a post in October 2012 giving my first impressions of
Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX. This is a solution for Continuous
Data Protection (CDP) that replicates data in real time. RecoverNow
for AIX lets you replicate data between physical and virtual servers,
and can be used for migrations. So it's a pretty valuable product if
your business can't tolerate significant data loss or extensive
downtime. I've
since had more of a look at RecoverNow for AIX, and I've run... [More]